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Wanda Treumann

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The name of Wanda Treumann is connected with the early German silent movies. She had worked as actress and producer. Unfortunately her name and contribution are completely forgotten today. Wanda Treumann was born on 25 November 1888 (other sources quote November 17, 1889) in Koclo (Poland). From Upper Silesia she went to Leipzig and took up acting training with Emanuel Reicher. Together with her husband Karl Treumann she went to Berlin. Here she made her stage debut at the "Berliner Trianon-Theater" and continued her theatre career. There, she was spotted by the famous Danish actor and director Viggo Larsen. In 1910 he went to Germany, to Berlin and was an employee of the "Vitascope-Gesellschaft". This production company gave Wanda Treumann her first film part. Together with her husband and Viggo Larsen they founded the "Treumann Larsen Film GmbH" in 1912. In at least 30 films she acted before the camera. But her real work was in another capacity. Between 1912 to 1922 she acted as producer for more than 80 films. In 1922 the last film was produced. After 1922 nothing is known of her whereabouts. She probably died during WWII.
- IMDb mini biography by: Elfgiva@web.de

Already at the beginning of the 20's she retired from the film business and concluded her impressive career premature.
Especially with the Danish star Viggo Larsen she played in a whole string of successful so-called sensation movies like "Der Eid des Stephan Huller" (1912) and "Die Sumpfblume" (1913). The duo Treumann/Larsen was so successful that they founded a Berlin-based film company called Treumann-Larsen-FilmVertriebs Gmbh.
The actress Wanda Treumann belonged to the most popular stars of the German film before World War I, together with Asta Nielsen, Viggo Larsen and Henny Porten. At those time the German movie came off of the short movies and they shot also feature movies. With it they discovered a new market and the audience was able to identify with the actors on the screen in an easier way.

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